{"id":199622,"date":"2024-11-17T03:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/siberian-permafrost-reveals-nearly-32000-year-old-saber-tooth-cat-cub"},"modified":"2024-11-17T03:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T09:22:34","slug":"siberian-permafrost-reveals-nearly-32000-year-old-saber-tooth-cat-cub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/siberian-permafrost-reveals-nearly-32000-year-old-saber-tooth-cat-cub","title":{"rendered":"Siberian permafrost reveals nearly 32,000-year-old saber-tooth cat cub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/siberian-permafrost-reveals-nearly-32000-year-old-saber-tooth-cat-cub3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Siberian permafrost has thrown up yet another surprise for scientists. In 2020, a saber-tooth cat cub was found preserved in the frozen soil. A team of researchers has now detailed their findings in a study published this week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, in 2018, the permafrost also revealed a remarkably preserved cave lion cub. It was almost in perfect condition.<\/p>\n<p>The mummy of the saber-tooth cat includes the animal\u2019s entire head and one forelimb, its shoulders and rib cage, and one of its hind legs. To understand which species of the saber-tooth cat it belonged to, the team decided to study the mummy\u2019s head and dental features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siberian permafrost has thrown up yet another surprise for scientists. In 2020, a saber-tooth cat cub was found preserved in the frozen soil. A team of researchers has now detailed their findings in a study published this week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports. Notably, in 2018, the permafrost also revealed a remarkably preserved cave [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}